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Colin Reid Miller

Born: 6 February 1964, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria
Major Teams: Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Netherlands, Australia.
Known As: Colin Miller
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Right Arm Fast Medium


Test Debut: Australia v Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 1st Test, 1998/99
Latest Test:
Australia v India at Chennai, 3rd Test, 2000/01

First-class Debut: Victoria v South Australia at Melbourne, 1985/86
Last First-class Match: Victoria v Western Australia at Perth, 2001/02

List A Debut: South Australia v Victoria at Melbourne, 1988/89
Last List A Match: Victoria v Tasmania at Launceston, 2000/01

Victoria 1985/86 and 2000/01
South Australia 1988/89 to 1991/92
Tasmania 1992/93 to 1999/00
Netherlands 1998

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (including 18/03/2001)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   18   24   3   174   43    8.28  56.49   0   0    6   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             681.5  163  1805   69  26.15  5-32    3   1  59.2  2.64

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS

                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct St
Batting               0    -   -     -    -     -     -   -    -  -

                     Balls    M     R   W    Ave  Best  4w 5w    SR  Econ
Bowling                  0    -     -   -    -     -     -  -    -    -

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1985/86 - 2001/02)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  126  150  31  1533   62   12.88   0   3   39   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling            4863.5 1205 13815  446  30.97  7-49   16   3  65.4  2.84

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1988/89 - 2000/01)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   49   29   7   239   32   10.86   0   0   10   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             442.1  1833   49  37.40  4-36    2   0  54.1  4.14

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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A consummate cricketing journeyman, Colin Miller made his mark with several teams in Australia, Europe and Asia as a spirited right arm bowler, belligerent lower order batsman, and wholehearted fieldsman. From his cricketing origins in Melbourne's western suburbs until the late 1990s, Miller's career was built on his reputation as a strongly built right arm paceman who could move the ball both ways and who had the capacity to vary his pace cleverly.

In the latter part of his career, however, he made a staggering transformation to his game which saw him rise from being a well-regarded state player to an Australian first-class record breaker and international surprise packet.

Almost unbelievably, Miller's decision in a Hobart club game to revert from bowling pace to off-spin (on account of a niggling ankle injury) and to thereafter mix both styles of bowling was the catalyst for an astonishing succession of events. Among the more notable of these were his haul of 12/119 against South Australia in January 1998 (an all-time record for a Tasmanian bowler in a Sheffield Shield match); his rewriting in 1997-98 of 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith's 63-year old record for the highest number of wickets taken in a Shield season; and his stunning emergence in his mid-30s as a tremendously reliable performer for Australia in the international arena. Whilst he surprised some observers by opening the bowling as a paceman and later returning to the crease as an off-spinner who extracted considerable bounce and turn, it must be noted that it would be difficult to identify many first-class bowlers who have struck with anywhere near the same degree of consistency as he did. That he was voted 'Test Player of the Year' for 2000-01 for a team which dominated world cricket tells its own tale about his effectiveness. It's not only for the frequent changes to the colour to his hair since January 2001 that Miller will therefore be renowned.

Miller announced his retirement from first-class cricket in July 2002. He will surely long be remembered as one of the more versatile players ever to represent Australia and one of the country's most amazing first-class success stories. (John Polack, August 2001. Updated July 2002.)

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